I had that book. It was one of my favourites, and especially those lines
from the Masque of Anarchy...
But children like gruesome stuff (and being taken seriously). Smith was
smart enough not to patronise.
Best
Alison
>Not being able to think of any you haven't already mentioned off the top of
>my head, can I just lamely second Stevie Smith, who chose these lines from
>Shelley's _The Mask of Anarchy_ to head a collection of verse for children:
>
>Next came Fraud, and he had on
>like Eldon an ermined gown.
>His big tears, for he wept well,
>turned to millstones as they fell.
>
>And the little children who
>round his feet played to and fro
>thinking every tear a gem
>had their brains knocked out by them...
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